Ice Bath Case Study

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Procedure: A sand bath was set atop a hot plate set at power level 5, while a 10 mL round bottom was prepared with the addition of 14 (0.33 mL) drops of olive oil and 1 mL of cyclohexene. Once the contents of the 10 mL round bottom were mixed thoroughly, a boiling chip was added, and the round bottom was attached to a reflux condenser apparatus. The reflux was run for 20 minutes starting at the point in time when the mixture within the round bottom flask (that was submerged in the heated sand bath) began to boil. While the running the reflux, a 5 ¾ inch Pasteur pipette was obtained and clamped vertically with the tip facing downward. A small amount of glass wool was placed inside of the pipette and pushed down to block the narrowing end by a wooden boiling stick. A total of 100 mg (0.100 g) of celite was weighed out and was carefully added into the pipette as an additional layer atop the glass wool stopper. Once the 20 minutes elapsed, the reflux-round bottom …show more content…

Before being placed in the ice bath, the product appeared to have a golden tint to it and was fairly fluid. After the ice bath, the product remained fairly fluid, however, it appeared to take on a more cohesive droplet form and the color was less pigmented. In addition to this, the bromine test performed at the end of the investigation yielded slightly varying results. The color change identified in the case of the bromine/dichloromethane and added 5 drops of olive oil turned out to change the original orange/red color of the bromine/dichloromethane to a clear and unpigmented liquid. The addition of hydrogenated olive oil (product) to the originally orange/red colored bromine/dichloromethane ended up turning clear similar to the addition of olive oil, however, there appeared to be a slightly yellow tint to the resulting liquid as

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